Heh, it's great -- that old man is a true fighter, never falls back and is skilled with all weapons! You know the phrase "saved by the bell"? It is supposed to refer to little bells over the graves with cords inside the coffin, so that if the person entombed was mistakenly thought of as dead, he could sound the bell and be saved! That's horrifying on its own!

Great work with the Ithaca comic, too, I hope it all works out with it.